Environment MEPs still split over ETS allowances

摘要

In the run up to this week's crucial vote on the European Commission's backloading proposal under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee, MEPs still appeared to be at loggerheads. Tweeting on 13 June, Dutch Green MEP Bas Eickhout said the Greens were "against draft backloading compromise agreed yesterday as it weakens already weak proposal," to which Finnish centre right MEP Eija-Riitta Korhola replied, "This might be a strategy to frighten us [the EPP] to support it. But we are not that simple ;)."